Tag: africa
90 yr old Mugabe falls at Harare airport
Zimbabwe's 90-year-old President Robert Mugabe fell down a staircase on Wednesday as he walked off a podium after addressing supporters at Harare international airport,...
WHO pulls staff from Sierra Leone Ebola lab after doctor infected
The World Health Organization has withdrawn staff from a laboratory testing for Ebola at Kailahun in eastern Sierra Leone after one of its medical...
The progress of Technology in Africa
Technology in Africa is rapidly progressing and improving at a remarkable rate. The continent vastly relies and takes advantage of mobile devices which has...
Ebola Kills 56 In Two Days, Says WHO
The Ebola virus killed 56 people in just two days, bringing the global death toll to 1,069, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
The death...
New PET Market Spotlight: Putting Tanzania and Africa Region’s PET Industry...
In the 1.5 day summit, brand owners, converters, bottlers, fillers, PET resin manufacturers, beverages majors and other stakeholders can look forward to information sharing...
Billions of dollars in deals and funding to be announced at...
The United States will announce nearly $1 billion in business deals, increase funding for peacekeeping and commit billions of dollars to expanding food and...
Sage wins software piracy case against three African companies
Sage, a leading global vendor of business management software, announces that it has won three court cases against pirate companies in Maghreb and in...
Michelle Obama says the “blood of Africa” runs through her veins
First lady Michelle Obama embraced her family’s African roots in a speech on Wednesday, telling a group of young Africans that the “blood of...
US Green Card: ArKay Beverages invites Africa’s Wealthy to Invest in...
world’s first maker of alcohol free liquors, is inviting African wealthy individuals to invest in the USA in a new concept of ArKay Non...
2015 Africa Cup of Nations: Eritrea withdraw from qualifiers
Eritrea have pulled out of the qualifiers for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, the Confederation of African Football has confirmed.
They had...
Nigeria arrests 12 including two Britons for oil theft
Nigeria has arrested two Britons and 10 of its own citizens on charges of trying to bribe a military officer to facilitate oil theft,...
Egypt’s military chief to run for presidency
Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced that he has resigned as Egypt's military chief in order to stand for the presidency.
In a widely...
Director of South Africa IT firm charged with attempted police bribe
An executive director of South Africa's Pinnacle Holdings has been charged with offering a $460,000 bribe to a senior police official to win an...
Nigeria appoints new Military Chiefs
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria approved...
Al Jazeera says three journalists held in Egypt after hotel broadcast
Al Jazeera said Egyptian security forces arrested three of its journalists after the interior ministry accused the Qatar-based television channel of broadcasting illegally from...
Suspected Islamists attack Borno barracks again
Scores of suspected Islamist gunmen stormed a military barracks in northeast Nigeria on Friday, spraying gunfire on the troops inside before torching the compound,...
Kabiru Sokoto bags life imprisonment for terrorism
The Boko Haram kingpin, Kabiru Umar, alias Kabiru Sokoto, was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment by an Abuja Federal High Court for his...
